Buttons, Strings, Songs and Windows - Riccardo Tesi and Giua

Name: Buttons, Strings, Songs and Windows - Riccardo Tesi and Giua
Start: 2026-04-09T18:00:00+11:00
End: 2026-04-09T18:00:00+11:00
Location: Point Lonsdale Uniting Church

About

6 pm Thursday 9th of April
Seated event - unallocated seating
Ticket $35
Doors/Bar open at 5.30 pm

A journey through songwriting, folk songs and instrumental music. The two artists have known each other and been friends for over twenty years, and have often collaborated on each other's records and written songs together.
Now they are finally presenting their duo concert, Retablos, in which they merge their artistic paths, which are different but also very similar: that of the popular and instrumental music of Riccardo Tesi, one of the most innovative diatonic accordionists recognised internationally, and the songwriting and popular music of Giua, a singer-songwriter and guitarist highly appreciated on the Italian cultural and theatre scene.
The title of the show is inspired by one of the major expressions of Peruvian art, the Retablos, small portable wooden boxes that in ancient times contained figures of saints and today also reproduce scenes from everyday life. Magic boxes then, windows that open and tell a story, that make you travel to distant worlds, just like music.
Make yourself comfortable, open your ears and your heart, here we go!

View and listen a taste here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQYJKq6ynkY

Riccardo Tesi
Organist and composer, he is considered one of the most daring and authoritative musicians on the European word music scene.
Riccardo Tesi, internationally acclaimed accordion player and composer, is rated as one of the most daring and authoritative musicians in the European world music scene.
What is amazing about Tesi is his easily recognizable style, allowing his diatonic accordeon to speak both an archaic and modern language, widening the vocabulary and the technique of an instrument for a long time preserved as part of a traditional heritage.
Riccardo Tesi, over his fourthy year career, has collaborated with world music artists such as Elena Ledda, Justin Vali, Marc Perrone, Kepa Junkera, John Kirkpatrick, Bottine Souriante and Patrick Vaillant, jazz musicians Gianluigi Trovesi, Stefano Bollani and Gabriele Mirabassi, and great songwriters as Ivano Fossati, Fabrizio De Andrè and Gian Maria Testa.
Leader of Banditaliana , one of the most renowned Italian groups on the world music international scene, and member of Samurai, all stars quintet of european accordeon players, he has played in the most important jazz & folk festivals all over Europe, Australia, Canada and Japan. In 2014, he restaged the new version of Bella Ciao to celebrate 50 years of the most important show in the history of Italian folk music.
He has recorded over 25 albums and composed music for film and theatre.

Giua
Maria Pierantoni Giua, a.k.a. Giua, is a musician, singer, songwriter, student of the guitarist Armando Corsi and a painter.
Winner of various awards, Lunezia, Castrocaro, Musicultura, Mantova Musica Festival, Barcelona Festival de Cançó Barnasants. Finalist at the 2008 Festival di Sanremo in the young category. Giua has released five albums. Numerous the theatrical collaborations as author of the music and performer; various the music collaboration (Riccardo Tesi, Fausto Mesolella, Adriana Calcanhotto, Jaques Morelenbaum, Armando Corsi). She has worked with Neri Marcorè on the show “Quello che non ho”, on tour for three years selling out major Italian venues. Currently she is taking part with Neri in “La buona novella”, a show dedicated to Fabrizio De André.
Giua is among the founders of the multiethnic choir ‘Coro Popolare della Maddalena’, and, in partnership with Ospedale San Martino di Genova, she works on "Parkinsong”, a choir with patients affected with Parkinson disease. Giua is music author and live performer in "Maria Stuarda”, Schiller’s theatrical drama directed by Davide Livermore of ‘Teatro Nazionale di Genova’. She wrote “Human Pride”, a song used as soundtrack for the city’s theatrical season.
In 2023 Giua released two singles, “Quella là” feat. Blue Dolls, and “Siamo tutti dello stesso segno” feat. Simon&TheStars. Also in the same year she co-writes “Mex Moon” with internationally acclaimed Riccardo Tesi, performing with him in the “Retablos” concert.
Giua is currently working on her next studio album.

Opening this special night will be George Butrumlis. George Butrumlis is arguably Australia's finest piano accordionist, proficient in all of the many styles performed on this versatile instrument. He has played with a vast array of groups and artists including The Black Sorrows, Zydeco Jump, Caroline O'Connor and The Three Tenors.